Shares of the British bank Standard Chartered were sharply lower Tuesday, a day after U.S. officials accused it of illegally laundering $250 billion in financial transactions with Iran during the past decade. Britain's fifth-biggest bank has operations spread throughout the world, but until now had been spared from a wave of recent disclosures about financial irregularities by British banks. New York's top banking regulator, however, alleged that Standard Chartered "operated as a ...
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